Year: 2012

  • Channel Credit Card Rewards Programs Give the People What They Want

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    A new generation of rewards programs from vendors and distributors are chucking the model of product discounts, co-marketing dollars and free or reduced-price training. Instead, they are enticing their solution providers with vacations, free merchandise and cold hard cash. A slew of programs recently introduced are offering incentives that have nothing to do with business… Read more

  • Avaya Touts Nortel Enterprise Solutions Acquisition

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    Avaya has signed an agreement to acquire Nortel Enterprise Solutions, the latter’s enterprise solutions business, for $475 million. According to Avaya, the acquisition agreement is a big step in strengthening its position in the business communications market and also in its ability to provide enterprise communications solutions to customers. Avaya was unable to comment on… Read more

  • Media Phones Poised for Prime Time

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    As if we don’t have enough screens to look at already, media phones are slowly but surely infiltrating where we live and work, bridging that gap between the computer and the telephone. According to research firm In-Stat in its report, “The Media Phone Has Arrived!” media phones for business will generate $3.3 billion in annual… Read more

  • Despite Economy, Unified Communications Still a Technology to Watch

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    For more than 10 years, unified communications has been touted as the next big technology, a way for corporations to improve customer relations and employee productivity. And for more than 10 years, unified communications has slowly, but surely integrated itself in various forms into the mainstream, to the point where many corporations might not even… Read more

  • Managed Services: Top Vertical Markets for 2009

    Managed Services: Top Vertical Markets for 2009
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    Managed Services: Top Vertical Markets for 2009 Managed services promises to be a cost-saving alternative to on-premise hardware and software solutions. According to a CompTIA survey, managed services demand will increase significantly in these five industrial sectors. Managed Services: Top Vertical Markets for 2009 Managed services promises to be a cost-saving alternative to on-premise hardware… Read more

  • Two Takes on Surviving Recession via Cost Cutting

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    This year’s annual CompTIA Breakaway conference had a distinct air of problem-solving, fraternity and optimism. With its members-driven set of working groups, CompTIA events tend to be constructive and goal-driven. Yet as a leader of a couple of workshops at this year’s event, I was reminded of the practical survival instinct in play with many… Read more